Coniglio Gigante!
Located on a hill (el. 1600m) above the Village of Artesina, Piemonte, Italy is "Hase", an installation by gelatin that will be in place until 2025. As explained by the artists:
"The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy."
"The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitĂs body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines."
"Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside. Such is the happiness which made this rabbit."
"I love the rabbit the rabbit loves me."
(via Archinect)
"The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy."
"The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitĂs body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines."
"Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside. Such is the happiness which made this rabbit."
"I love the rabbit the rabbit loves me."
(via Archinect)
I don't believe this. It looks fab. And scary.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably a good thing those intestines aren't as prominent as the rest of the rabbit. I'm curious what it's like in person, though.
ReplyDeleteAh, to be as free and happy as a maggot.
ReplyDeleteIt would certainly draw you to itself, and most certainly would move you emotionally, so it must be art. Noel
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